Most of us have grown up hearing about Schrodinger’s cat, and for the most part, most people can’t understand it. But is it really that hard? One of the first things it taught me, was that it reinforced relativity. Schrodinger’s cat is a thought experiment, to get the person to see how that what they do effects the outcome. Relativity is also about how what you do effects the outcome, but Schrodinger’s cat put it right up in your face.
Scientists are now saying Schrodinger’s cat has two boxes, I find this interesting because the only way I was able to imagine it was to imagine that Schrodinger’s cat was both alive and dead at the same time, which would require two boxes, or another parallel universe.
Schrodinger came up with this experiment to help illustrate things in the quantum world. For example, one simple example is light, the photon. It has two states, wave and particle. If you test to see the particle, then that’s what you’ll get. If you test to see the wave, then that’s what you get. When I was attending ITT Tech from 1990 to 1991, this was one of the experiments I did, while working with light. Since there was no way to perform an experiment that allowed us to test both at the same time.
I don’t wish to rewrite the article, so if Schrodinger’s cat intrigues you at all, then definitely click on the link below. Scientists have finally found a way to test both states at the same time.
Physicists create a double cat state in two entangled microwave cavities
Source: Schrödinger’s cat lives and dies in two boxes at once – physicsworld.com
Torah Rocker 